Sharing the Full Moon Together
– Series of Events Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between China and the United States
Latest Progress
President of US-China Foundation (USCF) Larry Lee arranged a special travel to NY city to follow up the related issues of the series of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the US. He visited the local advisers and members of USCF during the 10 days and received very positive feedback and valuable advices.
On July 2, Larry Lee met the senior officials of Chinese Consulate General in New York. On July 3, Larry Lee met the director of Lincoln Center Jack and Jack expressed his best wishes and expectation to this grand activity and promised to provide the first-level service, and then they signed the contract together. Next day, Larry Lee met the executive director of USCF Mr. Jesse Watkins and introduced the specific situation of the activity to Jesse. He also met the president of National Committee on United States-China Relation Mr. Stephen Orlins and Stephen expressed his interests & support to the events. At the meantime, Larry Lee met Ms. Li Ningyu of China Institute and invited China Institute to be the co-organizers together with NCUSCR. He gave calls to several responsible persons of Air China and Continental Airlines for cooperation as well.
At 3:40 pm, on July 9 (US local time), Larry Lee met with Dr. Kissinger
again at Dr. Kissinger’s office in NYC. They had a very pleasant meeting together. Dr. Kissinger pleasantly accepted the invitation, as the honorary chairman of ‘Sharing the Full Moon Together’- A series of events, initiated and programmed by the USCF to be held at Lincoln Center, Avery Fisher Hall, from October 3, 2009 till October 5 during Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States. When talking about USCF issuing him the life time award of Outstanding Sino-US Friendship Contribution, he said repeatedly, ‘I am very honored by this award!’ When Larry Lee asked about his advice on USCF NYC events, he said frankly, ‘You have hosted many major events and have rich experience; I believe that your NYC events will be a great success!’ After the meeting, Dr. Kissinger and President Lee had a photo taken together.
Larry Lee flied back to Beijing on July 10. On July 11, he met a director of a mainstream press group and reached agreement on the all-round framework cooperation. On July 12, Larry Lee had a meeting with the Honorable Chairman and General Adviser of USCF Ambassador Chai Zemin, and Ambassador Chai Zemin said he would like to fly to the US for this activity. In the next day, Larry Lee had the chance to meet Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong. Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong promised to attend the activity. On July 14, Larry Lee met Ms. Hu Qihua, a chief of China Daily and Editor in Chief of American Edition; they expressed that China Daily was happy to be the media partner of this activity to expand the impact of this series of events.
Larry Lee has updated this progress of the activity to Ambassador Li Zhaoxing, the former Chinese Foreign Minister, and his wife - Mrs. Qin Xiaomei Li, and they both said that with the involvement and support from Dr. Kissinger and Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong this series of events must be a big success.
